Series MS-2180 - Allan Mackie log house construction records

The Mackie papers document the involvement of Bernard Allan Mackie and his wife Mary with log house construction, 1971-1983. The collection consists of correspondence, brochures, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, books and photographs relating to courses and speeches on log house construction given by Mackie at the College of New Caledonia, and elsewhere in British Columbia and Canada, to the B. Allan Mackie School of Log Building, established near Prince George in 1975, and to the Mackies' publishing venture, Log House Publishing Company. Of particular interest is the Log Building Inventory ; forms distributed by the Mackies around 1980 and filled in by people from all parts of Canada who had built log houses. The completed forms are often accompanied by photographs and letters.

The collection is of some interest for the technical information on log building it contains and as a source for the architectural historian. It is also valuable for the light it sheds on the buildings of the Mackie's and their students on the benefits to man of the use of natural products and on various social and environmental issues. In this aspect the records may be of some interest to historians of the environmental movement of the 1970s.